LIVESTREAM: AFDI/Jihad Watch Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest

For those who could not attend this historic event in person, the United West will be livestreaming it. Tune in at 5pm CENTRAL Time (6pm Eastern) when the action starts. Just click on the video below. Follow me on instagram here and Twitter here and Facebook for my photos in real time.

For the second time this year, free speech and religious liberties are colliding at Garland ISD’s Curtis Culwell Center.

Opponents say the American Freedom Defense Initiative’s Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest on Sunday will be an attack on Islam.

How is free speech an attack on Islam? And why are they portrayed as the victim when we are the victims of supremacism and jihad?

But its organizers, who booked the event after a controversial pro-Islamic event used the center in January, say they are simply exercising their right of expression. The contest, which is offering a top prize of $10,000, has received about 350 entries depicting Muhammad. But caricatures of the Islamic prophet are considered offensive by many Muslims. In January, a French newspaper that published such cartoons was attacked by terrorists and 12 people died. In January, a French newspaper that published such cartoons was attacked by terrorists and 12 people died. As part of its contract with the district, the American Freedom Defense Initiative has paid $10,000 for extra security — nearly $50 for each of about 200 tickets that have been purchased so far. That cost doesn’t include private security the group is employing. “It does speak to the world at large that we have to have this intense security around this art exhibit,” organizer Pamela Geller said in February. “That’s all it is … an art exhibit and a cartoon contest.” Geller’s New York-based group booked the Curtis Culwell Center after it was the location for Sound Vision Foundation’s Stand With the Prophet in Honor and Respect event. That pro-Islamic program drew hundreds [sic – we were thousands] of protesters in January. Some critics complained that the school district should not have permitted the event, but officials said they were required to follow a nondiscriminatory leasing policy.

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The American Freedom Defense Initiative is a new organization launched by Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer. Our objective is to go on the offensive when legal, academic, legislative, cultural, sociological, and political actions are taken to dismantle our basic freedoms and values.